Affordable Housing

Join Jeff Nevens of Indwell, Tom Cooper of the Hamilton Roundtable for Poverty Reduction and Michelle Baird, Director of Housing for the City, for a discussion of what’s happening in Hamilton around housing and homelessness and what solutions are available that won’t take five years. February 21 at 7 p.m. at Christ Church Cathedral on … Read more

Maclean’s magazine has an interview with Hamilton’s Ward 3 Councillor Nrinder Nann, explaining the city’s new bylaw to protect tenants and deter unnecessary evictions: https://macleans.ca/society/hamilton-renoviction-policy/ The article wrongly says rents for Hamilton one-bedroom apartments doubled between 2019 and 2023. They rose a lot but not that much. Rentals.ca reports show average one-bedroom rents in vacant … Read more

‘Homelessness is a Housing Problem’: An online discussion Tuesday February 13 Many things get blamed for homelessness. So, researchers Greg Colburn and Clayton Page Aldern looked at statistics to try to explain why homelessness rates vary so wildly across the United States. Data on mental illness, drug use, poverty, weather, generosity of public assistance, and … Read more

Our congregation urges the provincial government to step up on affordable housing and homelessness.  With Board approval, the Affordable Housing Team submitted a brief to the provincial consultation on the 2024 Ontario budget last week. You can read the full letter here. The letter elaborated on issues many of you supported in letters signed after … Read more

The Affordable Housing Team would love to hear what you are experiencing in terms of housing, whether you’ve just closed a deal to buy a home or are struggling to pay your rent, whether happily housed or hate where you live. Your stories, whether dramatic or ordinary, will help us ground our advocacy in the … Read more